Submission by Bharati Nayak

[Bharati Nayak]

Dear Fabrizio and All Poets,

Here is my poem for the upcoming Anthology.

Title of my poem 'Lost like This'.It is translation of my original poem in Odia language ' Emiti Haji Jae'.The English version has not been published anywhere.

'Lost Like This'

Oh,I remember,

Reading my poem about ' Baby Falak and Nirvaya' 

in a poets' meet.

But I lost my poem there.

The poem could not see

The light of the day.

Why do

Poems are lost halfway?

Why do they lose track?

Did anybody

Throttle their necks?

Or ,did  any one 

Shred their soft petals

In demonic darkness?

Why do

Beauty and innocence

Die before coming  to full bloom

Or hang in the Cross?

I just simmer in burn

And think,

Ah,what more have I done 

Than mere writing poems ?

(Poet's Note--Baby Falak --a two year old baby girl was hospitalized in AIIMS at NewDelhi  with a fractured  skull ,broken arms and brutal human bites  mark on her body.This incident took place in 2012 . She later succumbed to injuries. .The incident in India caught headlines.

'Nirvaya'  means 'The one without fear'  was a 23 year old  physiotherapy  intern who was gang raped  and fatally assaulted inside a   private bus by six persons  in South Delhi   of India This incident  also happened in 2012..)